While sheltering-in-place at home, I've taken to doing some (more) silly ice projects. For these I used the basic Igloo cooler method and placing objects near the top of the water line so that they'd freeze into the clear part of the ice after freezing. For the sunglasses, I rested... Read more →
New booze books on ice, French cocktails, bourbon, fermentation, and more. Read more →
Most readers of Alcademics are probably familiar with this by now, but I realized that in my many (many, many) ice posts here on Alcademics I don't have a straightforward post listing how I most often make large perfectly clear ice spheres at home. So I made this post to... Read more →
A quick mention of my clear ice method in Cook's Illustrated and an older Milk Punch story is online and in video form. Read more →
I made more fun ice for Halloween. Recently I put some bouncy eyeballs into ice balls and froze a Halloween mask into an ice block. This time I put some big glass eyes into ice balls and put vampire fangs into other ice balls. The glass eyes were an idea... Read more →
I froze a Halloween mask into an ice block, with fun results. Read more →
Another silly ice project in plenty of time for Halloween. Read more →
Another ridiculous ice project from Camper. Read more →